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Job's Wager: An Alternative To Pascal's Wager And The Atheist's Wager (With Color Illustrations)
Job's Wager An Alternative To Pascal's Wager And The Atheist's Wager - With Color Illustrations Author:Jacob Schriftman The first part of "Job's Wager" is written as an allegory about the quest for God. The protagonist embarks on three ways of searching for God: the Way of Authority, the Way of Experience, and the Way of Argument. But in the end, the quest fails. What remains is the counsel of a woman. The second part of the book explains the council of the wom... more »an more fully, walking the reader through three wagers: Pascal's Wager, the Atheist's Wager, and what Jacob Schriftman calls "Job's Wager." This is one of the rare books that can be appreciated by believers and atheists alike. It is for all those who make a distinction between what is useful to them personally and what is true universally. Includes color prints of works by Johann Heinrich Fuessli, Michelangelo Caravaggio, Raphael, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Gerard Dou, Francesco Salviati, Georges de La Tour, Edouard Manet, Sebastiano Ricci, Caspar David Friedrich, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others.« less